4to. Original white cloth, spine lettered in black; dust jacket (some sort tears and minor creasing, slight soiling and toning). Provenance: Sibyl Beach (inscription from Helen Frankenthaler).

FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY FRANKENTHALER TO SIBYL BEACH on the front free endpaper: "For Sibyl Beach, Thank you for a friendly party after an evening of good exchange. Sincerely, Helen Frankenthaler 23 Nov. 71." Frankenthaler, an Abstract Expressionist painter, invented the soak-stain technique and was part of the 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg, pivotal in its introduction of and transition to Color Field Painting. Her work was exhibited from the 1950s until her death, including the 1969 exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art overseen by American art critic and historian Goossen, accompanied by this exhibition catalogue.